Jacob C. Cooper

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I am a PhD student at the University of Chicago and the Field Museum of Natural History studying birds. My interests include biogeography, evolutionary biology and conservation with a tropical emphasis.

The bird was singing along a road cut through partially flooded discidious woodland adjacent to a lake. Seen extremely well from as close as eleven meters as it sang approximately four meters above the ground. Recorded with an iPhone 4S.

Extremely quiet because it was recorded with my iPhone. Singing from the top of a tree near the parking lot at the visitor center. Appeared to be keeping as high as possible, and moving about sporadically.

Bird singing from the subcanopy of a large tree in a clearing. Repeated whistles in the background throughout recording are Camaroptera chloronota. Bird was seen well, and accompanied by an apparent juvenile. eBird checklist.

Undoubtedly missing the ID's of some species, but the background species list is pretty representative of the birds present at this location. This recording was made from near the highway in secondary agricultural forest; many of these birds are singing in thicker secondary and primary forest on the slopes above my location. The background "noise" is a mix of greenbuls, predominately Eurillas virens and Arizelocichla tephrolaema. A complete list of birds and species from this location and date is available here: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S20984700.